I think we had a similar thread on the old board, so why not revive it?

I recently picked up a Behringer Neutron. I have a project right now with a motorized typewriter and wanted to integrate it with a filter and envelopes (I’ll do a video soon) and the Neutron was by far the cheapest way to get into the fully patchable world. Also got a Doepfer 119a, which lets me use a little piezo trigger to create gate signals. Been pretty fun so far. I could see myself going deep down a modular rabbit hole!

I have thus far avoided Modulars because I know how I am and how it would affect my bank account. But, yeah man. Synths and drum machines and looping through weird FX and doing weird shit is kinda the best thing there is. I'm re-building synth-land in my basement to get our Nord, Arturia Mini Brute, a NI Maschine, and Drum triggers though Reaper all to work together and it has been a good time. Sometimes I just tape down a chord drone on the Farfisa and get everything going in a cool loop and play drums for a long time like Phillip Glass on cough syrup. Nothing is better.

I always wanted a sequential prophet because Skinny Puppy, so I got the behringer pro-1 to see if I liked 'that world' and boy do I ever. My spouse however, does not - and it kills me because they make far, far better sounds than I do. But I'm not playing live so I get the repeatability bulletproof of patches.
We've got that, a roland Juno JU-06a that I built into a little enclosure with an arturia that is very functional live and quite fun. However, the Roland Juno X is probably my next longterm synth purchase because it's just so fucking useful.

Here's my "Nothing over five hundred bucks alllowed" roll around:

man, https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/msg ... 89976.html

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 11:57 pm man, https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/msg ... 89976.html

There is a guy in Texas who has a huge collection of Prophets. like 20 of them or something.

yeah I can imagine there's some nuts stuff out there - I was just surprised at the merch and flair

It has taken me 5 years to get enough moduals to fill to fill a two tier rack. It's mono, great.
Have any of you used a Behringer DEEPMIND 12?
It's a poly I"m looking into getting.

I love my D-50.

Mickey242 wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:23 pm It has taken me 5 years to get enough moduals to fill to fill a two tier rack. It's mono, great.
Have any of you used a Behringer DEEPMIND 12?
It's a poly I"m looking into getting.

I love my D-50.

I have a friend that has a Deep Mind and said it is unreliable and has serious issues, but I'm not sure what they are. I am pretty against buying anything Behringer makes new on a preachy level. I wouldn't have feelings about buying anything on the used market, but I won't directly give that company money. I'd rather buy soft synths than a hardware version made by Behringer. Fuck Behringer.

Been eyeing one of those Korg ARP 2600 M reissues for a month or two now. Moving has meant that bringing more gear into my place has been off the table for a bit, but hoping once I get unpacked/settled in, I can make one of those happen.

Currently having a great time with the Moog Grandmother, a Moog Opus 3, and occasionally messing around with the Moog Werkstatt.

Kniferide wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:47 pm I'd rather buy soft synths than a hardware version made by Behringer. Fuck Behringer.

^Correct take.

I went down the rabbit hole of MIDI keyboard controllers and ended up trying 2 out. For what I wanted, it seemed the best options were the Arturia Keylab and the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol.

I started with an Arturia Keylab. Their software is pretty killer, especially the free stuff. You get a couple of preset apps for free, which is quite a lot of sound. Here's where things got interesting: I bought my first one off a vendor on Amazon. I plugged it in and everything was cool, except for a select number of keys up in the higher octaves were inconsistent when playing softly. I ended up returning it and getting a replacement when firmware updates and MIDI controller tweaking didn't fix the issue. The replacement had the same issues in the same octave. I contacted Arturia and they were really helpful... and flabbergasted. I ended up getting frustrated and returned the second one. It was really disappointing because really loved the feel of the keyboard and the software.

I then purchased a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol. Playability, it was consistent, however, I couldn't get the software to run well and it ended up corrupting the filesystem on the Mac. I ended up returning it, but there was a caveat: you can only purchase Native Instruments online from the factory in California and they don't have a return policy! That is, unless you beg them to take it back. And, if they allow it, you have to pay to ship it back to them yourself. A very odd policy for an online-only purchase.

I couldn't stop thinking about the Keylab so I ended up going to a store to play one and check the keys. The one in the store I was at played flawlessly. I told the sales person about my experience with the ones I purchased online and he said they purchase directly from Arturia. Either, Arturia has really bad quality control and sells shit ones to generic online retailers or someone's doing crazy knockoffs...

So, TL;DR: if you're looking for a nice MIDI controller keyboard, the Arturia Keylab is worth a look. Buy from a legit retailer or direct from the factory. You get some nice free software and it works well with hardware synth generators, other synth software and integrates with almost every DAW.